Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Sungazers Class love science and have all participated in various science activities over the term, making lava lamps, volcanoes, sensory snow, and slime. Their favourite experiment is making the cornflour slime as not only is it a good sensory science activity, it’s also good messy fun!
The boys are now able to follow the steps and make their own slime with minimal assistance.
The Sungazers Class have enjoyed exploring different weather types through various science experiments. This week we watched a video all about torandos then had a go at making our own ‘tornados in a jar’ using vinegar, water, food colouring and liquid soap. We even added some sequences to see them get sucked up into our torando. It was great fun!
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Presently we are unable to access our photographs to blog but we have been very busy in the Stars class.
We planted sunflower seeds in pots for the school meadow. They are growing well and will soon need canes to support them. We also planted sweet pea plants in our garden planter. We’ve built another wigwam for them to climb up.
We continue to enjoy our dinosaurs theme making salt dough fossils and a sediment sand jar to show how fossils were made. We created a mod roc head for our giant dinosaur in class and made dinosaur footprints to compare sizes with our own.
There was some serious landscape gardening going on this week in the Transition class. The boys were Effective Contributors when they were working on their SQA Hobbies and Interests outcomes. The boys were preparing a patch of the garden to take the whole school sunflowers. We hope to plant them all together next week.
The Transition class were Effective Contributors when they took part in their Health and Wellbeing Lessons this week. They were learning skills to play rounders. Each boy practiced hitting the ball and then throwing it towards a target. The Major Baseball League is the obvious next step!
We all discussed the agenda for the pupil council and voted for our end of term party theme and ideas for activities for POLO day.
Everyone had their vote and were effective contributors and actively engaged in the conversation.
The vote decided a football theme and taking part in water activities then a BBQ for POLO day.
The Transition class continued with some SQA work this week and tried different board games. They tried ‘Happy Families’ and snakes and ladders. Both games took a wee while before a winner was announced. The boys were Effective Contributors and will reflect on their enjoyment next week to add the evidence to their folders.
The Transition boys were Effective Contributors this week when they made a class Nessie. They were learning about Scottish myths and legends and using their art skills they mad a long Nessie for our display board. If you want to see her make sure you only look out the corner of your eye, if you try and look directly at her she’ll dive back into the Loch!
We discussed Global Goal 17 in class this week, coming together to work in partnership with others. Helping people and joining together as a group.
We took part in some team games to demonstrate that at times problems can be solved if we all work together as a team and be effective contributors.
We were working against the clock to take puzzle pieces to our champion puzzle problem solver then as a full team we just made it to put the puzzle together before the time was up. Great team work Oak!
Our next job was to get the ball into the basket but we were not allowed to move with the ball so again as a team we worked together to pass the ball along to the team mate closest to the basket.
Last Friday the Transition class put their numeracy skills to good use. They were Effective Contributors . They collected all the small pots they could find and shared them equally among 13 classes. This was to let the classes plant their sunflower seeds that were kindly donated to the school by Morrisons. The boys also shared the seeds equally among the classes. Once they start to grow the sunflowers will be planted all together to create a whole school sunflower meadow,
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